A database of copyright-free films that could be suitable for reinterpretation.

Starting out as a stand selling T Shirts in the lobby of the Alamo Drafthouse theatre, Mondo are now a company that produce highly sought after, limited edition screen prints by various artists for various film screenings. A huge archive of all past posters can be found by clicking the link above.

Experiment with screen printing to see if I could retain the detail from my original drawings. The leftover prints from Handmade & Bound are available to buy online–https://jamesmartin.bigcartel.com/

It’s hard to talk about design for film, without mentioning the work of Saul Bass.
Recently, this huge monograph was published and I had to get a copy. It’s sheer size means I haven’t yet been able to reach the end, but it’s been a great read so far.

The Folio Society produce new editions of great literary works, placing great emphasis on the binding, paper, typography & illustration that result in some beautiful looking products.

The Silver Screen Society is an inspiring collection of cinema based art from a select group of designers & illustrators. Each month, a new film is interpreted by the contributors and the images are posted online. You can see a useful overview of all the past months of work on their tumblr archive (http://silverscreensociety.tumblr.com/archive).

Little White Lies is an independent movie magazine that fuses the world of film with fantastic editorial design and illustration to make what is probably my current favourite publication, encompassing much of what interests me in design. Each issue has an illustrated cover produced by a range of different artists, based on the main film featured in the magazine–covers often end up as prints available to purchase online. Of course there’s lots more illustration & design to look at inside the magazine, which is released bi-monthly by the creative agency The Church of London. Subscriptions are very cheap too.

It also looks like there’s going to be a D&AD Student Award brief to design a cover for them. I can’t wait to hear more about that one.

image: Little White Lies 38 The Another Earth Issue (Cover by Kai & Sunny)

For me, the most interesting one yet. Focusing on one of my favourite decades of cinema, the ’70s, this episode looks at Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Mean Streets), Coppola (The Godfather), Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven), and Andrei Tarkovsky also gets a brief mention–who’s films Solaris & Stalker I’ve recently watched and loved. Well worth a watch.

image: Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978)